Municipalities of Milan

Milan, Italy is divided into nine municipalities (Italian: municipi or zone; known as zone di decentramento, "decentralization zones" from 1999 until 2016). They are numbered from 1 to 9. The organization was established in 1997, implemented in 1999 and reformed in 2016; prior to that the city was divided into 20 administrative zones.

The nine boroughs of Milan

Borough Councils

Each Municipality has a local government called Consiglio di Municipio (Borough Council). Every Council is composed of a President and 40 members for boroughs exceeding 100,000 inhabitants or 30 members for smaller ones.[1]

While the 1997 plan was intended to ascribe several rights and functions to borough councils, this has been largely unattended, so that borough councils have, in practice, little power and few duties.[2] Some of the actual functions of borough councils are:

  • expressing opinions on urbanistic and social issues such as public works, town planning, maintenance of green spaces, regulamentation of street markets. These opinions are not binding for the higher level city government.
  • managing funds (if any) provided by the city government for specific purposes, such as those intended to guarantee the right to education for poorer families.

After the 2016 administrative reform, the Borough Councils are also responsible for most local services, such as schools, social services, waste collection, roads, parks, libraries and local commerce.[3] Moreover, the Presidents are no longer elected by the Councils members but directly by the voters; for the current legislature (2016–21) the Presidents are:

Zone President Party Votes % Mayoral majority
1 Fabio Luigi Arrigoni PD 18,081 45.2 Y
2 Samuele Piscina LN 23,318 43.2
3 Caterina Antola PD 25,956 43.7 Y
4 Paolo Guido Mario Giancarlo Bassi LN 25,380 41.6
5 Alessandro Bramati NCD 19,695 41.0
6 Santo Minniti PD 24,743 41.7 Y
7 Marco Bestetti FI 28,856 42.2
8 Simone Zambelli SI 30,517 42.6 Y
9 Giuseppe Antonio Lardieri FI 27,637 40.9

The nine boroughs

With the exception of Municipio 1, which corresponds to the historical city centre (defined as the part of the city that used to be surrounded by the old Spanish walls, now mostly demolished), the boroughs are organized in a sunburst pattern, and numbered from the north-east zone clockwise (see picture above). While boroughs are mostly referred to by number, each borough also has an official name, usually a list of its main districts or areas.

Current boroughs are described in the table below, along with their names, area and population (as of 2014), as well as a list of the main districts comprising each zone. Note that districts (quartieri) are informal (they are not administrative divisions).[4]

BoroughNameArea
(km2)		Population
(2014)		Population density
(inhabitants/km2)		Quartieri (districts)
1Centro storico9.6796,31511,074Brera, Centro Storico, Conca del Naviglio, Guastalla, Porta Sempione, Porta Tenaglia
2Stazione Centrale, Gorla, Turro, Greco, Crescenzago12.58153.10913,031Adriano, Crescenzago, Gorla, Greco, Loreto, Maggiolina, Mandello, Mirabello, Ponte Seveso, Porta Nuova, Precotto, Stazione Centrale, Turro, Villaggio dei Giornalisti
3Città Studi, Lambrate, Porta Venezia14.23141,22910,785Casoretto, Cimiano, Città Studi, Dosso, Lambrate, Ortica, Porta Monforte, Porta Venezia, Quartiere Feltre, Rottole
4Porta Vittoria, Forlanini20.95156.3698,069Acquabella, Calvairate, Castagnedo, Cavriano, Forlanini, Gamboloita, La Trecca, Monluè, Morsenchio, Nosedo, Omero, Ponte Lambro, Porta Vittoria, Porta Romana, Rogoredo, San Luigi, Santa Giulia, Taliedo, Triulzo Superiore
5Vigentino, Chiaravalle, Gratosoglio29.87123,7794,487Basmetto, Cantalupa, Case Nuove, Chiaravalle, Chiesa Rossa, Conca Fallata, Fatima, Gratosoglio, Le Terrazze, Macconago, Missaglia, Morivione, Porta Lodovica, Porta Vigentina, Quintosole, Ronchetto delle Rane, San Gottardo, Selvanesco, Stadera, Torretta, Vaiano Valle, Vigentino
6Barona, Lorenteggio18.28149,0008,998Arzaga, Barona, Boffalora, Cascina Bianca, Conchetta, Creta, Foppette, Giambellino-Lorenteggio, Lodovico il Moro, Moncucco, Porta Genova, Porta Ticinese, Ronchetto sul Naviglio, San Cristoforo, Sant'Ambrogio, Teramo, Villa Magentino, Villaggio dei Fiori
7Baggio, De Angeli, San Siro31.34170,8146,093Assiano, Baggio, Figino, Fopponino, Forze Armate, Harar, La Maddalena, Muggiano, Porta Magenta, Quartiere degli Olmi, Quarto Cagnino, Quinto Romano, San Siro, Valsesia, Vercellese
8Fiera, Gallaratese, Quarto Oggiaro23.72181,6698,326Boldinasco, Bullona, Cagnola, Campo dei Fiori, Cascina Triulza, Chinatown, Comina, Fiera, Gallaratese, Garegnano, Ghisolfa, Lampugnano, Musocco, Porta Volta, Portello, Quarto Oggiaro, QT8, Roserio, San Leonardo, Trenno, Varesina, Vialba, Villapizzone
9Porta Garibaldi, Niguarda21.12181,5989,204Affori, Bicocca, Bovisa, Bovisasca, Bruzzano, Ca' Granda, Centro Direzionale, Comasina, Dergano, Fulvio Testi, Isola, La Fontana, Montalbino, Niguarda, Porta Garibaldi, Porta Nuova, Prato Centenaro, Segnano
Total181.761,353,8828,164

Footnotes
  1. (in Italian)Regolamento del decentramento territoriale, approvato dal Consiglio comunale con deliberazione n. 26 del 1997; art. 3
  2. (in Italian)Regolamento del decentramento territoriale, approvato dal Consiglio comunale con deliberazione n. 26 del 1997; Titolo V
  3. Municipality of Milan - Municipalities
  4. (in Italian)Statistiche dal sito del Comune di Milano Archived July 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
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